With the rise of video and native ad formats, traditional display ads don’t get a lot of love in media buyer circles. But they do get plenty of money, as a new ZenithOptimedia forecast makes clear. Spending on standard display ads (i.e. desktop banners) will rise 16% in 2014, “boosted by the revolution in programmatic […]
Programmatic buying is becoming increasingly important to the China advertising industry. But in recent weeks, executives, including Publicis’ Maurice Levy, have shared how a dip in the luxury market in China has affected their business. We reached out to several industry executives in China with the following question: How is the slowdown in the China […]
Publicis Groupe media shop ZenithOptimedia and its rival, IPG’s Magna Global, predict the global growth of ad spend through 2016 will come from a number of new channels – namely more dollars allocated to mobile and social buys as well as the penetration of programmatic in more countries. Mobile wave: While analysts have predicted that […]
Investments in mobile advertising continue to accelerate, but the growth rate could ease off next year, according to a new report from Publicis Groupe’s ad agency ZenithOptimedia. Global mobile advertising, which includes all online ads delivered to smartphones and tablets, whether display, classified or search, is growing seven times faster than desktop ads. ZenithOptimedia predicts mobile […]
Media agencies have more influence than ever, thanks to the runaway train of audience fragmentation and the infrastructure/manpower needed to address it. This trend is nicely articulated by Publicis Groupe’s acquisition of digital agency Engauge Marketing – not because Engauge is a digital media agency (it’s not) but rather because it’s a creative and content-centric […]
The research team at agency ZenithOptimedia is predicting 4.7% ad spend growth in 2012 in spite of global, bubbling economic turmoil. In a post on the agency’s blog, ZenithOptimedia’s Head of Forecasting, Jonathan Barnard, says, “This acceleration in global expenditure is the result of the ‘quadrennial’ effect and Japan’s recovery from the effects of the […]
